Desert Noises : Provo, UT : www.myspace.com/thedesertnoises
There's something undeniable about music from the southwest. There's a certain desert aura, or as I heard Rodger Clyne put it recently, a "lonely jangle" that seems to be the common thread in a lot of music coming out of Arizona, Utah, Texas, Nevada and NM. It's only after living in a city made of concrete for the last year that I could fully appreciate that jangle, and likely why I tend to keep buying albums from jangl-y desert bands.
It's only fitting then that I'd be immediately drawn to a band with "desert" in their name. Desert Noises hails from Provo, Utah, home of one of my favorite desert wanderers, Drew Danburry. He posted a video he directed for their song "New Man", which is sort of a paradox of the whole desert vibe. I've heard New York described as "living in black and white", and have come to see the west coast as a sort of Oz like alternative, full of color. However, this video is shot in black and white, but creates the colors for itself through the tunes and that lonely desert jangle.
Those of you in Phoenix can check them out with Austin Gibbs on April 15th @ Modified.
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